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Mood and affect concept map description: This is a concept map that shows the components of mood and affect. It starts with the definition: the way a person feels and acts. And then continues with the components of mood and affect:

Scope

• Mood Spectrum
• Severe Mania
• Hypomania
• Euthymia
• Melancholy
• Severe Melancholy

Assessment

• agitation, sadness, speech
• energy, cognition, functional impairment
• mental status assessment
• suicidal ideation
• must monitor for adverse effects of medication treatment such as serotonin symptoms suicidal ideation

Management

• improvement of social determinants of health
• mental status exam and screening instruments
• psychotherapy pharmacotherapy (antidepressants, anti-mania, antipsychotics, CNS depressants)

Consequences

• High use of medical care
• Potential for suicide
• Social and relational impacts
• Cognitive impacts

Physiological Process

• Cerebral Cortex
  • reduced blood flow and abnormal phosphorous metabolism (especially in the prefrontal cortex)
• Neurotransmitters
  • Dopamine
  • Serotonin
  • Norepinephrine